American Perfekt

A criminal psychiatrist and a troubled young woman meet in the desert and become embroiled in a plot involving murder and mayhem. Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer., Paul Chart’s thriller-cum-road movie stars Robert Forster as a chance-taking psychiatrist who picks up stranded Amanda Plummer, a neurotic chick on her way to her sister’s. But their lives are changed when, out of gas, they are picked up by English tourist David Thewlis, a magician and con man who may be harbouring a darker secret., In this noir-influenced road movie, Jake (Robert Forster) is a criminal psychiatrist who has come to the conclusion that our lives are dictated primarily by chance, and has given himself over to this notion by making most of his decision by the flip of a coin. Sandra (Amanda Plummer) is a neurotic woman on her way to pick up her younger sister, a teenage delinquent named Alice (Fairuza Balk) when she’s run off the road and left stranded by a madman named Santini (David Thewlis). When Jake happens by and Sandra asks him for help, Sandra is lucky at first: she wins the coin toss, and he elects to help her rather than kill her. When they have to make a stop, Sandra sees Santini’s car parked by the side of the road; Santini catches Sandra as she tries to rip off some money that he’s stashed in the car, and though she gets away, Santini isn’t done with her yet. Director Paul Chart probably didn’t have much trouble securing Amanda Plummer for the role of Alice: Chart and Plummer were married in 1994., Tense thriller exploring elements of chance and luck, in which a neurotic woman, Sandra Thomas, is driven off the road by a maniac in a station wagon, and left stranded in the Californian desert. A passing motorist, Jake Nyman, comes to her aid, and as they wait for assistance, Nyman flips a coin to determine the eventual outcome of their encounter.